Post AmTReDcEE4pQVe311s by rlonstein@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #AmTRb64BpvvKEBdbg8 by lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
       2024-09-28T20:24:23Z
       
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       There is this genre of videos where people climb a ladder to prune some high branch, the branch inevitably starts swinging toward the trunk before they finish the cut, then breaks free once it exceeds some critical angle, and takes out them or the ladder.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzd8WtVJVfc
       
 (DIR) Post #AmTRb76LzNFTRBeqgq by lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
       2024-09-28T20:25:09Z
       
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       This is rivaled only by videos of people trying to fell trees using cars
       
 (DIR) Post #AmTRb8sFOn9Yw14byq by lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
       2024-09-28T20:29:33Z
       
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       Anyway, the second one is just dumb, but the first one is mildly fascinating, because it *seems* like such a simple task, we all know wood... and it has a failure mode that's obvious only in retrospect.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmTReDcEE4pQVe311s by rlonstein@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-09-28T20:51:51Z
       
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       @lcamtuf When I was a teen a neighbor cut a tree. We gathered across the street to watch knowing it would be good. Figured he'd drop it on his own house. Nope. He roped himself and the chainsaw above the branch he was cutting but he stood on that lower branch like something from Looney Tunes and cut. It kicked, dropped, caught his rope and being quite a bit heavier than he, hoisted him up. No proper harness, rope slipped and he dangled upside-down with the idling saw swinging next to him. 🤣